Background of the Study

1

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

All people in the world use language, both in written and spoken form to express their ideas and feelings. Language is something that is used for communicating in spoken and written. According to Ramelan 2003: 1, “Man speaks a language as a means of communication with other people, as tool to express his ideas and wishes. Without language it is hard to imagine how people can cooperate and get along with another”. One of the languages in the world is English. English is one of the most important languages. In this modern era, people demand to have more than one language and English is the first foreign language that has to be mastered by everyone. Nowadays, English has become more and more important. Cahyono 2009: 91 states that English has become a tool for international communication in transportation, commerce, banking, tourism, process of technology, and scientific research. Moreover, Crystal 2003: 3 states that English has achieved a genuinely global status since it develops a special role that recognized in every country. Therefore English is considered as a global language which is spoken by many people all over the world either as the first, the second language or as the foreign language. Realizing the importance of English nowadays, our government states that English as a foreign language should become a compulsory subject at school. It is taught from Elementary School to University and it becomes one of the subjects in National Test UN. Students need to understand spoken and written English to communicate their ideas effectively. In Indonesian education curriculum or content based on curriculum, students have to master the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this case, teaching English must be conducted in every education field in Indonesia from elementary to university. Nowadays, Indonesian education is using Curriculum 2013 and School-based Curriculum KTSP. The government of Indonesian Education has announced new regulation from Ministry of Education No. 32 Year 2013 showing the changing from the previous regulation Ministry of Education No. 19 Year 2005 about the National Education Standards. The 2013 Curriculum quickly was implemented to all school in Indonesia after the new regulation has announced. The changing influences the process of teaching-learning all subjects in classroom. But in December 2014 Indonesian Government had changed the curriculum back to School Based Curriculum KTSP by published Regulation of the Minister No. 159 Year 2014 concerning the evaluation of the 2013 Curriculum. However, some schools in Indonesia still use the 2013 Curriculum because they have permit and are requested by the Region Government of Education. All schools in Indonesia which use the 2013 Curriculum including Senior High School must use Scientific Approach for teaching and learning process in the classroom. Handelsman 2004 in Fauziati 2014: 154 states that scientific approach is pedagogical approach used in classroom whereby teaching is approached with the same rigor as science at its best and it involves active learning strategies to engage students in the process of science and teaching methods that have been systematically tested and shown to reach diverse students. In scientific approach the teachers must develop and increase the student ability that is relevant with students’ need, condition of the school, and link it to the environment. The 2013 Curriculum has changed the classroom procedures. Fauziati 2014: 156 states that scientific approach consists of five main steps in the learning cycle, namely: 1 observing, 2 questioning, 3 gathering of information or experimenting, 4 associating or information processing, and 5 communicating. The aim of the classroom procedure is to develop the students’ attitudes, to express their idea briefly but succinctly, and develop their language skills. Brown 1997: 7 states “Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enable the learner to learn, and setting the condition for learning”. Teaching English is different from teaching Indonesian language. English has different characteristics. English is more complicated than Indonesian language, it is why students have to pay more attention to study English at school. Teaching English has its own ways to make students engaged especially in Senior High School. It’s necessary to conduct an interesting technique in teaching English activity. The implementation of technique actually takes place in a classroom. It is a particularly trick, strategy, or contrivance used to accomplish the problem when teaching English is running. Technique used in teaching English based on Scientific Approach at Senior High School must be consistent with a method and therefore in harmony with an approach as well. Technique encompasses the actual moment to moment practices and behaviours that operate in teaching English according to a particular method. Then, the students can enjoy their learning process if the technique and method are appropriate with the situation and condition. SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno has been using Curriculum 2013 from 2013 until now, but the implementation is just for tenth and eleventh grade, because the twelfth grade still uses School-based Curriculum KTSP. SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno has four languages to learn, they are Indonesian, Java, Arabic, and English. The writer is interested in teaching English at the school because the writer wants to know the implementation of Scientific Approach for teaching English by the teachers. In SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno, English becomes a favourite subject. The students like learning reading, speaking, writing, and listening. Then, teaching speaking in SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno has various techniques in order to make the students more interested in the classroom. The process of teaching English is created to be effective and efficient. The various learning theories and concepts are used to make the students familiar and enjoy learning English language. The teaching learning process becomes effective because the students like studying English and want to maximize their English skill ability. The variety or content of teaching English has its own purpose in teaching learning program. However the implementation of Scientific Approach of teaching English in every school has a different way to deliver. Teaching English in SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno also has a different way in applying Scientific Approach in their teaching learning process. The teacher uses various techniques to make students enjoy English class. There the researcher needs to conduct a research in order to know deeper the implementation of Scientific Approach in teaching of English activities at SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno. Based on the phenomena above, the researcher tries to conduct research which is related to the implementation of Scientific Approach in teaching English at eleventh grade students in SMA Negeri 1 Baturetno entitled “IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACH FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMA NEGERI 1 BATURETNO IN 20142015 ACADEMIC YEAR”.

B. Problem Statement